Inhibition of nuclear maturation in fully grown porcine and mouse oocytes after their fusion with growing porcine oocytes
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Experimental Zoology
- Vol. 235 (2), 255-259
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1402350212
Abstract
Porcine ovarian oocytes, isolated from follicles of 5 mm in diameter (large oocytes), were fused either together or with oocytes isolated from follicles of 0.5 mm in diameter (small oocytes). In giant cells composed of two large oocytes (control) germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) occurred and two metaphase I chromosome sets (M I) were observed 24 to 30 h after fusion. By contrast, in giant cells composed of one large and one small porcine oocyte, both germinal vesicles (GVs) remained well conserved after 24–30 h of culture. An identical situation was observed after fusion and cultivation of small porcine and large mouse oocytes isolated from preovulatory follicles. The results demonstrate the presence of inhibiting activity in the ooplasm of small porcine oocytes that prevents nuclear maturation of large porcine and mouse oocytes fused to them. This maturation inhibiting activity can be overcome by preincubating large porcine oocytes for more than 14 h before fusion with small oocytes. During preincubation the ooplasm produces sufficient amount of maturation promoting factor (MPF) to overcome the inhibiting activity present in small porcine oocytes thus inducing GVBD and chromatin condensation both in small and large oocytes.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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